Starkiller
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- Bendak Starkiller Mandalore
I initialy posted this on Arkadia's Discord Server however I was asked by a couple members this here in order to get more feedback on this suggestion and if popular, to catch MA's attention. This might also be a better place to discuss and better this sugggestion so feel free to improve upon it or criticize it in order to make it better thought out or refute it completely.
So my suggestion is as follows:
- One searchable tab with all the items from all the planets indexed in their respective item category, as it is now;
- Maintain planetary origin and respective fees attached depending on where you "auctioned" the item;
- These fees could be applied either by MA or as a PP planetary tax from x% to y%, I think this would be a good way to "attract" trade to different PP's due to tax fluctuations (I am not an economist however, so perhaps someone with knowledge in this area could improve it);
- Add another filter to the window (like the "unlimited/limited" filter) for "Universal/on planet/off planet" which could be set to "on planet" by default, or "universal";
Pros vs Cons
Identified Pros:
- All items would have increased visibility;
- Planets with competitive prices would certainly gain some popularity;
- More space traffic due to the above;
- Prices would become more standardized due to their easy-in-one-window comparison;
- Would render player / player group alt accounts that monitor the auction house through automation to become less desirable.
Identified Cons:
- Inter-planetary trading (buying low somewhere to sell high somewhere else) would be more difficult as items would be more easily comparable and therefore make people think more on the choice of buying/traveling;
- Would remove some of the effort of finding the best deals in the auction house, which could take out some of the advantage of those who do such efforts for their own profits.
I am sure more pros and cons could be found, but these are the ones that came off the top of my head.
Would like to remind again that this is a discussion and hopefully we can keep it civil and constructive along the way to make it a proper discussion.
Thanks for reading.
So my suggestion is as follows:
- One searchable tab with all the items from all the planets indexed in their respective item category, as it is now;
- Maintain planetary origin and respective fees attached depending on where you "auctioned" the item;
- These fees could be applied either by MA or as a PP planetary tax from x% to y%, I think this would be a good way to "attract" trade to different PP's due to tax fluctuations (I am not an economist however, so perhaps someone with knowledge in this area could improve it);
- Add another filter to the window (like the "unlimited/limited" filter) for "Universal/on planet/off planet" which could be set to "on planet" by default, or "universal";
Pros vs Cons
Identified Pros:
- All items would have increased visibility;
- Planets with competitive prices would certainly gain some popularity;
- More space traffic due to the above;
- Prices would become more standardized due to their easy-in-one-window comparison;
- Would render player / player group alt accounts that monitor the auction house through automation to become less desirable.
Identified Cons:
- Inter-planetary trading (buying low somewhere to sell high somewhere else) would be more difficult as items would be more easily comparable and therefore make people think more on the choice of buying/traveling;
- Would remove some of the effort of finding the best deals in the auction house, which could take out some of the advantage of those who do such efforts for their own profits.
I am sure more pros and cons could be found, but these are the ones that came off the top of my head.
Would like to remind again that this is a discussion and hopefully we can keep it civil and constructive along the way to make it a proper discussion.
Thanks for reading.
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